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Journal for March 2002.
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| 3.31.02 11:42 PM (Sunday) Regret |
I've been depressed lately. Really depressed. I've been feeling so pathetic...
On Tuesday, 1st period I remember practicing our Japanese skits. (If this is too boring, just skip ahead a few paragraphs... I just want to see how much I remember.) It went smoothly except I had to run an errand to the office to get something faxed to a teacher. Sensei said it had to be done right away, so I went back downstairs. I went back to the Japanese room and she was like "Oops I gave the wrong number!" so I ran back downstairs again. There were lots of Japanese people in the halls. Statistics we had a work day which was bad because Ms. Farmer wasn't there, so it was kinda pointless because everyone was confused on the worksheet and the assessment. AP history lecture, EMT we went over some vocab terms off this computer glossary, and then out of no where, a fire drill hits. So we all ran outside in a mad panic. Someone dropped a sticky substance near the exit of the 2nd floor so everyone was slipping. Lunch soon started, I went to Ezell's where I ran across Gabino. We went into Stever's. I don't really remember what I did for the rest of the day... I think I went to the library during Strentz' to finish photocopying some things for my term paper.
Wednesday. 1st period we practiced our skits and had a test because so many people were absent we couldn't perform. Then during tutorial we had an assembly featuring the orchestra and a Japanese choir (very entertaining.) We had a really, really hard objective on the 20's and 30's in AP US, and went over our mock objective test (I got 54 out of the first 80). Lunch at Key Club, during 5th we spent two or so hours going over inverse trig functions and not understanding them. I also got called to the counseling office because they messed up my AP exams, I had to retell them which ones I was taking. (It must've been Shirley's fault one way or another...)
Wednesday night I really felt a time crunch for the term paper. I got minimal sleep but managed to crank out around 3 or 4 pages of text.
That brings us to Thursday. 2nd period we had a workday and I couldn't really use it well because I was so worried about the term paper due for LA. EMT we had a networking seminar and I really missed the brunt of what we were supposed to learn... okay during LA we had a work day, luckily I had Ms. Strentz read what I had on my term paper and she liked it so far, it was a relief. When I got home I napped for the longest time, and cranked out 6 or so more pages to finish my paper.
On Friday 1st period we had koto players come in and play. What else... 3rd period no essay test but a take home test, (too much work). 6th period I had my term paper read by a few people, and Meredith edited it, but luckily just the grammar. And that's Friday.
The details got shorter and shorter... I got lazier and lazier. Anyways, I think my depression has hit an all-time low this weekend. I was so down.
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| 3.26.02 2:32 AM (Tuesday) Happy B-day... |
I didn't update on Friday. I forget what happened that day, except during lunch I went to Ezell's with Yuki and hung out in the Marketing room. Happy b-day Yuki. Although, I didn't exactly go to her b-day party, and I forgot to get her a present.. oh well.
The weekend was boring. I reserved it for working on LA paper, but procrastinated as usual... Oh yeah, I was watching parts of the Oscars last night, so maybe that's why. Denzel Washington and Halle Berry won for Best Actor/Actress, respectively... good for them.
Yesterday I was talking to Leanne, who urged me to go back into Stever's for lunch. Regardless, today I did. I also went to Ezell's with Martin and Ulysses, who often rambles about the weirdest things.
During AP LA we had a reading day outside, which was good for the people who weren't caught up in our class novel Their Eyes were Watching God. I think I'll put off reading it until the weekend, when I actually have time to read it, because I have to finish working on this LA paper. I'm so screwed...
And I was listening to the song "Respect the Power of Love"... it brings back so many memories of freshman year. That whole spring-to-summer thing, going outside everyday for lunch, school being really easy. |
| 3.21.02 8:24 PM (Thursday) Stressed |
Today in Stats we got our tests back. 38/50! I've never done so bad on a test in that class before. Hopefully that one will be dropped and I'll get A's on the next few tests. But I'm still stressed, I've got a B in the class. I shouldn't be stressed. But I am.
During EMT we had two hours of sorting fun, and taking apart computers too. During lunch I went into Stever's for the first time in a long time, which felt good. API had a bake sale and Yuki hounded me into buying food, so I bought some fried rice, which was particularly nasty. Khaliun and David S. (who's staying in Seattle until Tuesday) went to Krispy Kreme's somehow, so I mooched a donut off them.. what else...
AP LA we had a timed write, goody. At first I thought my discussion group (me + Lily) was not beneficial at all because Lily just seemed so set on her thesis, but as I was thinking up mine I realized how right she was, so it helped me in that way I guess. We went outside for the rest of class.
Right now I'm trying to finish this app. for this program I'm hopefully doing this summer... blah |
| 3.20.02 10:48 PM (Wednesday) Snow |
We have a neat skit in Japanese. I thought of the idea, and it's pretty good in English, but in Japanese no one will understand it... the skit is, I call up someone's house and ask for Miki, and then Jean Enerson answers, and all hell breaks loose. So yeah... we were working on skits the entire time in Japanese today.
AP History long lecture on 30's New Deal, got back DBQ's and objectives. Lunch at Ezell's with David, then to Key Club. During 5th we had work time... got some papers back... and then towards the end of the period IT STARTED SNOWING! At first it was just somewhat light, then it came down in gigantic-sized flakes. It was really nice... we got out a little early because we were working diligently on the HW, and everyone rushed to their cars/buses. It reminded me so much of winter... of course it is the last of winter (or is it the first day of spring.. hmm). And yeah, did I mention how sometimes weather is so symbolic... anyone read the book Snow Country?
On the Amazing Race tonight, the Gutsy Grannies team got eliminated. Darn, I was really rooting for them. |
| 3.18.02 11:36 PM (Monday) A sucker for hype and corporate America |
I've been watching a lot of reality TV lately. The Amazing Race was a show I almost got hooked on before 9-11 last year; then I suddenly lost interest. But after watching the first few episodes of the new season it seems I'm hooked again. And CELEBRITY BOXING! It was on last Wednesday (3.13.02). It was great. Tonya Harding vs. Paula Jones-- it was just so worth it to see them hug in the end. What else... oh yes, that new Real World/Road Rules thing on MTV. At first I didn't think I would like it because it was just another reality TV show, (well after all, RR/RW are reality TV to begin with...) but it's a good show; watched a new episode tonight. Now you might think, "whoa he's pathetic." And uhh I'm thinking that too. Oh well...
Academically today was so-so. During EMT we got to take apart computers so salvage parts. It was kinda... at lunch I picked up my transcript and went to Ezell's with Eugene. Just looking at a near-perfect academic history is probably the only reward for trying so hard. It's like "wow look at all these A's..." other than that, it's probably not going to affect which college I go to, etc. I don't know why I worry so much. The highlight of my day was in AP Calc; the test I thought I did just okay on I turned out to do really well on... a 97! I was surprised.. I just hope the other tests I took last week turned okay. Actually in AP LA I got a 5/6 on my essay, I'm starting to think it was because of all the negative criticsm... which sucks. Hopefully only one more timed write. Also, Luk visited for the period, it was kinda awkward because I didn't introduce him to Ms. Strentz so she was just thinking "who the heck is he?!" |
| 3.17.02 11:28 PM (Sunday) uncertainty |
| This weekend... so many things went wrong. On top of that, I have all this unfinished HW left to do... blaaaaaaah |
| 3.15.02 7:17 PM (Friday) BoAÇÃÇPstÉAÉãÉoÉÄÅI |
| Went to Chinatown today, got BoA's Japanese album. It's okay, I bet if I listen to it more the songs will grow on me. The songs are definitely Korean-influenced, with the in-your face pop somewhat-R&B-infused music. And her last single, the first track on the album, "LISTEN TO MY HEART," sounds a lot like Dream's (the American girl group's) song "He Loves You Not"... hmm (BTW what ever happened to Dream...) Also, most of the songs sound the same to me... which is good if you really like her style of music... there's one slow song on the album, and then there's "the meaning of peace," which is traditional jpop (it's also a solo version w/o Kouda Kumi...)
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| 3.15.02 10:29 AM (Friday) Tests a'plenty |
I had tons of tests this week, in each of my core classes. On Tuesday, I had a test in Calc, I think I did my best on that test out of all the ones I had this week, and I already know I got 2 out of 6 questions wrong o_O On Wednesday I had a quiz in Japanese which was no problem, but a really hard Objective/DBQ in AP US that I know I just bombed. My DBQ was particularly BSed. Thursday there was a test in Statistics, I already know I got one free response wrong, which sucks because I figured it out right after the test and I couldn't go back up and change my answer... in AP LA we had a re-do of a free response, I thought I did alright and then we had peer edits... Lily was my partner, she criticized it fine, but wrote no positive comments whatsoever. Ms Strentz better not give me a lower grade because of that...
Lots of meetings during lunch too. Tuesday- NHS, Wednesday was Key Club, Thurs. was NHS committee meeting.
Oh yeah, I had an Ortho. appointment afterschool Tuesday, and no one at home could give me a ride so I called Eric for a ride. He said "yes sure i'm not busy." Well afterschool first we dropped Jeffo off, then went to the Ortho. place near Southcenter... Eric said he had to be home by 3:30 so I told him not to wait up for me, my appointment was at least 40 minutes. I got out around 3:50, couldn't secure a ride, so I thought I would ride the bus home. It sucked. It was raining really hard, and walking from the Ortho. place (near Family Fun Center) to Southcenter (where I could catch a bus home) took really long. Not to mention the crosswalk across the street from Southcenter was broken, so I had to walk to the next intersection... there wasn't even sidewalk there so I was walking on the street, and I had to run across a Freeway onramp. Well at Southcenter I bought some donuts and called my sister for a ride, who was finally answering her phone. I wasn't going to ride the bus... |
| 3.8.02 1:28 PM (Friday) We had a regular schedule... |
So there's no school today, in-service day. Yesterday we had a regular 6-period day, but it was funky because like half of the people weren't at school... I think they assumed we would lose or something on Wednesday...
I wasn't going to go to school but I remembered we were going to have a quiz in Calc, so I had to stay for that. Periods 1-4 were so boring. During lunch Eric took me to McDonald's, as part of our plan to hang out more... I went into 5th period 5 minutes early because I thought lunch ended at 12:15, but it didn't, it ends 12:20 this year, so I got 5 minutes to study shell method. And I did just fine on the quiz... of course, I got the easier question out of the two versions Gaither gave out. For the rest of the period we just studied for our test, and in LA we got back papers and did nothing.
Oh man last night I woke up because of the thunder storm... and I thought it was raining but it was actually snowing. Some freak weather we're having. Weather seems so symbolic sometimes. |
| 3.5.02 3:14 AM (Tuesday) Thin Mint frenzy |
Wow these past two days have gone by really fast.
Yesterday was the Key Club bake sale. In the morning I tried to go to Trimble's but the door was locked so I went to first period first. I gave Sensei a tape of jpop. Did practically nothing in periods 2-4... except EMT we had a lecture from Mr. Rye about his trip on Gambia, kinda interesting. 20 minutes before the period ended I went to Trimble's to set up for the Bake Sale, went to Lovre's to get Sarah M. but they were taking a timed write so she couldn't come out. The Bake Sale went smoothly, we made around $50 and everything was sold, except one cookie, and I don't really know what happened to it. In LA we had the same timed write Lovre's class took (big surprise, seriously), it was really really hard... my essay was crap! Oh well.
Today was more interesting. State tournament basketball game during school so our periods were only 20 minutes long. In Japanese we listened to the jpop tape I made... yeah... and pretty much did nothing in the rest of my classes, except lecture in AP US, and HW quiz in Calc. But it was real easy. Afterschool I was going to go Downtown with Gabino, so I waited for him in the Photography room. I remember talking to Kim and she said she was going Downtown too, so we went to the library to look for her and get Camp forms... did both. So now Kim was going with us Downtown.
Downtown was interesting. It was really, really cold. Stopped at Gameworks, played a little DDR (it's so crappy now), stopped by Cheesecake Factory to check the prices, but it was too expensive, went down to Pike Place for some food, got some donuts and a beef hot dog. To Chinatown, where we stopped by Gossip, to Uwaji, to the bookstore, where we were looking at interesting Japanese magazines (weird because there was one magazine with both naked girls AND guys in it o_O), then back to Gossip, then parted. I actually took the 7 with Kim because she needed to go to Franklin, then I had to walk like 10 blocks to my house at my bus stop.
Lately I've been harrassing Meredith about her selling girl scout cookies. I've bought two boxes, both thin mints, and was going to buy a box of Tagalongs today but I sampled one and it didn't taste like I would expect. Oh well.
Also, anyone heard of the Japanese artist Tommy February 6... the leader of the brilliant green? She sings retro 80's style music. It's pretty funky, although I don't know when the 80's will ever be back in American pop culture. |
| 3.5.02 3:14 AM (Tuesday) Day of ups and downs |
Today was just wasn't my day... but it did have its ups and downs. First period- I forgot to do my homework so I struggled to do it at the beginning of class. Up. Couldn't finish it... down. Second period... we had a work day. Up. Third period... I was falling asleep throughout Creighton's lecture. Down. Fourth period... our movie was finished so I finished Statistics homoework. Up. Lunch... I had to sacrifice the first part of lunch to organize the Bake Sale. (Okay I won't complain.) Second part of lunch... went to Ezell's to buy some chicken, but the line was really really long. Down. Then I found Flavia and asked her to buy me some chicken. Up. Calculus... didn't understand the new section at all. Down. AP LA... Ms Strentz came back and the period was as hectic as ever (up)... she was like "I want to flash you..." and didn't finish her sentence because she was looking for the paper she wanted to flash us but everyone misinterpreted it and was like "MS STRENTZ!" I saw that one coming too... then later on she was talking about her grandmother, and how she needed a doctor, so TB said "My dad's a doctor..." and Ms Strentz goes, "Oh, does he do old people?" And then someone was like "Ohhhhhh" and yeah. Everyone's mind fell straight into the gutter.
On another note, I got like 10 pieces of mail from colleges today. I also received my first piece of mail from an Ivy League, ooh. Columbia U. |
| 3.3.02 11:37 AM (Sunday) Better... |
Friday was another easy Friday. I was late to 1st period. In Stats no one did the homework because everyone was finishing the assessment, so Ms. Farmer declared it a work day. I actually did my assessment wrong, so I'm turning it in on Monday... the second time I've turned an assessment late this semester. What else... video in history, that was an excuse for me to work on Calc HW. And EMT we tried to finish our fish video but I couldn't do a tint motion tween so we didn't. Lunch, the second Friday in a row I went to AM/PM. I went with Amy and Anna, since no one else wanted to go. AP Calc was a bitch... we had a quiz first, which I thought was really, really, hard, and then had to finish our homework, but of course no one finished. During AP LA we all just talked for the period.
Yesterday I talked to Eric for the first time in months. It was the first real conversation we've had in a while, anyway... we're going to try to hang out more. |
| 3.1.02 1:20 AM (Friday) still alone |
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February went by so fast. Maybe it's because of mid-winter break. Maybe it's because I didn't update for a long time.
Olympics update: Apolo Anton Ohno was on 43986027940 talkshows this week. Lots to celebrate. Michelle Kwan was on Leno tonight, she seemed fine she lost, I hope that brings some sort of closure.
The Grammies were last night (technically, two nights ago). I didn't watch, partly because I found out everything from AOL, and awards shows are so tedious I just go online to find out the winners. U2 and Alicia Keys were the big winners, no surprise there. India Arie didn't win anything, which is surprising because she was nominated for so many things.
Well that's enough for current events. What has happened recently...
Yesterday (Wednesday) was pretty normal, during tutorial everyone that stayed in Japanese class was looking at the Japanese "Seventeen"'s someone left around, and commenting on Japanese style and fashion, and making snide remarks. Pretty funny. In AP US we got our objective tests back, 48%! I don't care anymore. Long-ass lecture. Lunch at Key Club, but on the way there I ran into Eric who got me worried by saying that there was an NHS meeting, and I had Key Club, so I ran to Key Club and told everyone in there that there was an NHS meeting, and some people left, then I ran down to NHS and found out it was just the Fund Raising Committee. Thanks Eric. Went back to Key Club, Sarah M. and I finally organized the Bake Sale (NEXT TUESDAY MARCH 5TH IN THE ALDER HALLWAY) and finished the posters. Calc sucked, I spent all period (1 1/2 hours) on one stupid problem.
Today... during EMT I helped Stu finish our Flash animation involving fish. It's pretty neat, almost done, I'm sick of watching it though. Lunch, Christina or Leah or whoever was supposed to help didn't meet me in Trimble so I got help from the people outside the library... Laura agreed to help, then Jamie helped tape. We were putting the bake sale posters up. AP LA was goofy as usual, after the timed write we had group discussions, but it was an excuse for everyone to fool around.
It feels like freshman year all over again. Except a lot harder. It's pathetic when I'm having the same problems as I did during freshman year... I can't wait to graduate and just move away from everything. At least I hope it's as easy as that...
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